Movies released in 1988| 13th Floor, The | Chris Roache |
| 976-EVIL | Robert Englund |
| Aakhri Adaalat | Rajiv Mehra |
| Abomination, The | Bret McCormick |
| Above the Law | Andrew Davis |
| Action Jackson | Craig R. Baxley |
| Akira | Katsuhiro Otomo |
| Alice | Jan Švankmajer |
| Alien from L.A. | Albert Pyun |
| Amsterdamned | Dick Maas |
| Angel III: The Final Chapter | Tom DeSimone |
| Animal Protector | Mats Helge |
| Appleseed | Kazuyoshi Katayama |
| Appleseed Special Prologue | Takami Akai |
| Appointment with Death | Michael Winner |
| Apprentice to Murder | Ralph L. Thomas |
| As Tears Go By | Wong Kar-wai |
| Backfire | Gilbert Cates |
| Bad Blood | Chuck Vincent |
| Bad Dreams | Andrew Fleming |
| Beetlejuice | Tim Burton |
| Beyond Making | Fabio Salerno |
| Beyond the Rising Moon | Philip J. Cook |
| Big | Penny Marshall |
| Big Bird in Japan | Jon Stone |
| Big Business | Jim Abrahams |
| Big Heat, The | Johnnie To, Andrew Kam |
| Big Top Pee-wee | Randal Kleiser |
| Black Eagle | Eric Karson |
| Black Roses | John Fasano |
| Blades | Thomas R. Rondinella |
| Blob, The | Chuck Russell |
| Blood Delirium | Sergio Bergonzelli |
| Bloodsport | Newt Arnold |
| Brain, The | Ed Hunt |
| Brain Damage | Frank Henenlotter |
| Bull Durham | Ron Shelton |
| Caddyshack II | Allan Arkush |
| Cameron's Closet | Armand Mastroianni |
| Carpenter, The | David Wellington |
| Carrier, The | Nathan J. White |
| Cat, The | Dominik Graf |
| Catacombs | David Schmoeller |
| Cellar Dweller | John Carl Buechler |
| Cheerleader Camp | John Quinn |
| Child's Play | Tom Holland |
| Cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe Tornatore |
| City War | Sun Chung |
| Clean and Sober | Glenn Gordon Caron |
| Cocktail | Roger Donaldson |
| Colors | Dennis Hopper |
| Coming to America | John Landis |
| Contagion | Karl Zwicky |
| Cop | James B. Harris |
| Cop Game | Bruno Mattei |
| Couch Trip, The | Michael Ritchie |
| Crime Zone | Luis Llosa |
| Critters 2 | Mick Garris |
| Crocodile Dundee II | John Cornell |
| Curse of the Blue Lights | John Henry Johnson |
| Cyber Ninja | Keita Amemiya |
| D.O.A. | Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton |
| Dance Academy | Ted Mather |
| Dangerous Curves | David Lewis |
| Dangerous Game | Stephen Hopkins |
| Dangerous Liaisons | Stephen Frears |
| Dawn of an Evil Millennium | Damon Packard |
| Day of the Panther | Brian Trenchard-Smith |
| Dead Heat | Mark Goldblatt |
| Dead Man Walking | Gregory Dark |
| Dead Pool, The | Buddy Van Horn |
| Dead Ringers | David Cronenberg |
| Deadbeat at Dawn | Jim Van Bebber |
| Deadly Dreams | Kristine Peterson |
| Death Spa | Michael Fischa |
| Deathstalker III: The Warriors from Hell | Alfonso Corona |
| Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, The | Penelope Spheeris |
| Deep Space | Fred Olen Ray |
| Demon City Shinjuku | Yoshiaki Kawajiri |
| Demonwarp | Emmett Alston |
| Devil, The | Andrzej Żuławski |
| Devil's Circuit | Takashi Ito |
| Dial: Help | Ruggero Deodato |
| Diamond Ninja Force | Godfrey Ho |
| Diary of a Big Man, The | Chor Yuen |
| Die Hard | John McTiernan |
| Dim Sum Take-Out | Wayne Wang |
| Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | Frank Oz |
| Discarnates, The | Nobuhiko Ōbayashi |
| Dogra Magra | Toshio Matsumoto |
| Doom Asylum | Richard Friedman |
| Door | Banmei Takahashi |
| Dracula's Widow | Christopher Coppola |
| Dragon's Heaven | Makoto Kobayashi |
| Dragons Forever | Sammo Hung |
| Dream Demon | Harley Cokeliss |
| Dreaming, The | Mario Andreacchio |
| Drop-Out Mother | Charles S. Dubin |
| Edge of the Axe | José Ramón Larraz |
| Elvira: Mistress of the Dark | James Signorelli |
| Ernest Saves Christmas | John R. Cherry III |
| Evil Dead Trap | Toshiharu Ikeda |
| Face Like a Frog | Sally Cruikshank |
| Faceless | Jesús Franco |
| Fair Game | Mario Orfini |
| Fatal Pulse | Anthony J. Christopher |
| Fish Called Wanda, A | Charles Crichton |
| Flesh-Eating Mothers | James Aviles Martin |
| FleshEater: Revenge of the Living Dead | S. William Hinzman |
| For Keeps | John G. Avildsen |
| Foxtrot | Jón Tryggvason |
| Fresh Kill | Joseph Merhi |
| Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood | John Carl Buechler |
| Fright Night Part 2 | Tommy Lee Wallace |
| Funny Farm | George Roy Hill |
| Getting Even | Leandro Lucchetti |
| Ghosthouse | Umberto Lenzi |
| Ghosts... of the Civil Dead | John Hillcoat |
| Glorious Asuka Gang!, The | Yôichi Sai |
| Grave of the Fireflies | Isao Takahata |
| Graverobbers | Straw Weisman |
| Great Outdoors, The | Howard Deutch |
| Grievous Bodily Harm | Mark Joffe |
| Grotesque | Joe Tornatore |
| Hack-O-Lantern | Jag Mundhra |
| Hairspray | John Waters |
| Half Past Midnight | Wim Vink |
| Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers | Dwight H. Little |
| Hansel and Gretel | Len Talan |
| Hard Rock Nightmare | Dominick Brascia |
| Heart of Midnight | Matthew Chapman |
| Heathers | Michael Lehmann |
| Hell Comes to Frogtown | R.J. Kizer, Donald G. Jackson |
| Hellbent | Richard Casey |
| Hellbound: Hellraiser II | Tony Randel |
| Her Vengeance | Lam Nai-Choi |
| Hero and the Terror | William Tannen |
| Hide and Go Shriek | Skip Schoolnik |
| High Spirits | Neil Jordan |
| Hobgoblins | Rick Sloane |
| Hot to Trot | Michael Dinner |
| I Love Maria | David Chung |
| I'm Gonna Git You Sucka | Keenen Ivory Wayans |
| In the Line of Duty 3 | Arthur Wong, Brandy Yuen |
| Infernal Rapist, The | Damián Acosta Esparza |
| Inspector Wears Skirts, The | Wellson Chin |
| Intrépidos Punks | Francisco Guerrero |
| Iron Angels 2 | Teresa Woo San |
| Jack's Back | Rowdy Herrington |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth | Albert Pyun, Rusty Lemorande |
| Judgement Day | Ferde Grofé Jr. |
| Jungle Heat | Ratno Timoer |
| Kadaicha | James Bogle |
| Kamen Rider Black: Hurry to Demon Island! | Michio Konishi |
| Killer Klowns from Outer Space | Stephen Chiodo |
| Killing Birds | Joe D'Amato, Claudio Lattanzi |
| Kiss, The | Pen Densham |
| Lady in White | Frank LaLoggia |
| Lady Terminator | H. Tjut Djalil |
| Lair of the White Worm, The | Ken Russell |
| Land Before Time, The | Don Bluth |
| Last Temptation of Christ, The | Martin Scorsese |
| Law of Honor | Godfrey Ho |
| Lawless Land, The | Jon Hess |
| Let Sleeping Cops Lie | José Pinheiro |
| License to Drive | Greg Beeman |
| Lone Wolf | John Callas |
| Lucky Stiff | Anthony Perkins |
| Lurkers | Roberta Findlay |
| Mac and Me | Stewart Raffill |
| Magic of Spell | Chiu Chung-Hing |
| Man From Snowy River II, The | Geoff Burrowes |
| Maniac Cop | William Lustig |
| Married to the Mob | Jonathan Demme |
| Masquerade | Bob Swaim |
| Memorial Valley Massacre | Robert C. Hughes |
| Men Behind the Sun | Mou Tun-fei |
| Midnight Matinee | Richard Martin |
| Midnight Run | Martin Brest |
| Mirror of Death | Deryn Warren |
| Mississippi Burning | Alan Parker |
| Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack | Yoshiyuki Tomino |
| Monkey Shines | George A. Romero |
| Moving Target | Chris Thomson |
| Mr Vampire Saga 4 | Ricky Lau |
| Murder Secret, The | Mario Bianchi |
| My Neighbor Totoro | Hayao Miyazaki |
| My Stepmother Is an Alien | Richard Benjamin |
| Mystery Science Theater 3000: Gamera | Vince Rodriguez |
| Mystery Science Theater 3000: Gamera vs. Barugon | Vince Rodriguez |
| Mystic Pizza | Donald Petrie |
| Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, The | David Zucker |
| Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey, The | Vincent Ward |
| Necromancer | Dusty Nelson |
| Nekromantik | Jörg Buttgereit |
| Nest, The | Terence H. Winkless |
| Newlydeads, The | Joseph Merhi |
| Night of the Demons | Kevin Tenney |
| Night Wars | David A. Prior |
| Nightmare at Noon | Nico Mastorakis |
| Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, A | Renny Harlin |
| Nightmare Sisters | David DeCoteau |
| Not of This Earth | Jim Wynorski |
| Obsession: A Taste for Fear | Piccio Raffanini |
| Oliver & Company | George Scribner |
| Om Dar-B-Dar | Kamal Swaroop |
| On the Run | Alfred Cheung Kin-Ting |
| Out of the Dark | Michael Schroeder |
| Outlaw Force | David Heavener |
| Paperhouse | Bernard Rose |
| Paramedics | Stuart Margolin |
| Party Line | William Webb |
| Pass, The | Vladimir Tarasov |
| Patty Hearst | Paul Schrader |
| Peacock King, The | Lam Nai-Choi |
| Phantasm II | Don Coscarelli |
| Phantom of Death | Ruggero Deodato |
| Phantom of the Ritz | Allen Plone |
| Phoenix the Warrior | Robert Hayes |
| Picasso Trigger | Andy Sidaris |
| Pin | Sandor Stern |
| Plain Clothes | Martha Coolidge |
| Police Story 2 | Jackie Chan |
| Poltergeist III | Gary Sherman |
| Presidio, The | Peter Hyams |
| Primal Rage | Vittorio Rambaldi |
| Prime Evil | Roberta Findlay |
| Project A-Ko 3: Cinderella Rhapsody | Shôichi Masuo, Yuji Moriyama |
| Psychic Vision: Jaganrei | Teruyoshi Ishii |
| Pulse | Paul Golding |
| Pumpkinhead | Stan Winston |
| Pushed Too Far | Jack Rooney |
| Puss in Boots | Eugene Marner |
| Radio Bikini | Robert Stone |
| Rage to Kill | David Winters |
| Raiders of the Magic Ivory | Tonino Ricci |
| Rain Man | Barry Levinson |
| Rambo III | Peter MacDonald |
| Rat Man | Giuliano Carnimeo |
| Red Heat | Walter Hill |
| Red Scorpion | Joseph Zito |
| Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies | Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay |
| Rejuvenatrix | Brian Thomas Jones |
| Remote Control | Jeff Lieberman |
| Return of the Killer Tomatoes! | John De Bello |
| Return of the Living Dead Part II | Ken Wiederhorn |
| Robo Vampire | Joe Livingstone |
| Robowar | Bruno Mattei |
| Rock and the Money-Hungry Party Girls | Kurt MacCarley |
| Santet | Sisworo Gautama Putra |
| Scarecrows | William Wesley |
| School Daze | Spike Lee |
| Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School | Charles A. Nichols |
| Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf | Ray Patterson |
| Scrooged | Richard Donner |
| Sea Cat | Taku Sugiyama |
| Serpent and the Rainbow, The | Wes Craven |
| Seventh Sign, The | Carl Schultz |
| Shakedown | James Glickenhaus |
| Shaolin vs. Vampire | Gordon Liu Chia-Hui |
| Shattered Innocence | Sandor Stern |
| She's Having a Baby | John Hughes |
| Slaughterhouse Rock | Dimitri Logothetis |
| Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers | Michael A. Simpson |
| Slime City | Greg Lamberson |
| Slugs | Juan Piquer Simón |
| Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em | Ray Boseley |
| Sodoma's Ghost | Lucio Fulci |
| Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama | David DeCoteau |
| Space Mutiny | Neal Sundstrom |
| Spellcaster | Rafal Zielinski |
| Spider Labyrinth, The | Gianfranco Giagni |
| Spooky, Spooky | Sammo Hung |
| Stars & Bars | Pat O'Connor |
| Strike Commando 2 | Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei |
| Super Xuxa Contra Baixo Astral | Anna Penido, David Sonnenschein |
| Take Two | Peter Rowe |
| Tales from the Gimli Hospital | Guy Maddin |
| Talk Radio | Oliver Stone |
| Tapeheads | Bill Fishman |
| Taxing Woman's Return, A | Juzo Itami |
| Tequila Sunrise | Robert Towne |
| Terminal Entry | John Kincade |
| Terror Squad | Peter Maris |
| Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A Family Portrait, The | Brad Shellady |
| They Live | John Carpenter |
| Thin Blue Line, The | Errol Morris |
| This is America, Charlie Brown | Evert Brown |
| This is America, Charlie Brown, The | Evert Brown |
| Three-Head Monster | Wang Chu-Chin |
| Through the Fire | Gary Marcum |
| Thunder of Gigantic Serpent | Lee Chiu |
| Tiger Cage | Yuen Woo-ping |
| Tiger on the Beat | Liu Chia-Liang |
| Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis | Akio Jissoji |
| Too Beautiful to Die | Dario Piana |
| Top Line | Nello Rossati |
| Touch of Death | Lucio Fulci |
| Transformations | Jay Kamen |
| Trapped Alive | Leszek Burzynski |
| Traxx | Jerome Gary |
| Troma's War | Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz |
| Twins | Ivan Reitman |
| Unbearable Lightness of Being, The | Philip Kaufman |
| Undertaker, The | Franco Steffanino |
| Uninvited | Greydon Clark |
| Unnamable, The | Jean-Paul Ouellette |
| Vampires on Bikini Beach | Mark Headley |
| Vanishing, The | George Sluizer |
| Veerana | Shyam Ramsay, Tulsi Ramsay |
| Video Violence Part 2 | Gary Cohen |
| Watchers | Jon Hess |
| Waxwork | Anthony Hickox |
| Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Robert Zemeckis |
| Willow | Ron Howard |
| Witchcraft | Rob Spera |
| Witchery | Fabrizio Laurenti |
| Witches' Sabbath, The | Marco Bellocchio |
| Without Reservation | Fred Carpenter |
| Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Pedro Almodóvar |
| You Can't Hurry Love | Richard Martini |
| Zombie Death House | John Saxon |
| Zombie Flesh Eaters 2 | Lucio Fulci |